This is the Blood Red podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Hello and welcome to the latest podcast from the Blood Red channel. I'm Matt Addison and we've got something

slightly different for you in the works today. Look back at a transfer that never was.

Wind back to 2018 and Liverpool spent more in the transfer market than they ever had done before.

Backed in part by the 143 million pound deal that saw

Philly, Peacutino moved to Barcelona six months earlier, though 75 million of that had of course been spent on Virgil Van Dyke.

Liverpool then went and bought Allison Becker, Fabino, Nabikator and Zird and Shakiri

for a combined total of around 170 million. But they could very easily have spent

another 52 million pounds considering of course they had been minutes away from

signing French attacking midfielder Nabil for Kir. The then Leon Mann had everything in place for a transfer to happen,

and he'd even done the signing on video with Liverpool's in-house media team.

But then news of a knee problem arrived and the deal was called off.

Liverpool didn't move for an alternative number 10 and in fact they've never consistently

played with one since.

Talk of a continuing replacement continues but Liverpool have since moved down a very different tactical path,

all because this transfer deal collapsed at the 11th hour.

To get the lowdown on for Kie's transfer that never was, and what's happened to him and Liverpool since I'll soon be

joined by Christian Walsh who was working as a journalist for the echo at the time then

Spanish football writer Andrew Miller who specializes in Real Batise the club that Fakir plays for now.

And finally, Jonathan Johnson, a French football expert to get the view from Leanne.

Enjoy.

The Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo. I'm joined first by Christian Walsh who was working on the Echo Sports

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